Himachal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Devesh Kumar on Friday said that Election Commission of India (ECI) has significantly modernized its voter interface to accommodate a growing user-base. He said ECI continues to branch out into new technology areas and caters for massive information dissemination requirements for its 87.5 Crore electors during the General Elections.
He said ECI's ‘Voter Helpline’ App has been upgraded to show the information about contesting candidates, based upon the information entered by Returning Officers (RO). By this advent in the voter helpline, the electors now will now be able to search candidate name, list of all candidates. The application will have a special feature to filter based on parliamentary constituencies/assembly constituencies, phase, state constituency.
The CEO said that the special filters on the ‘Voter Helpline’ would also help the voters to read and download the affidavits and counter affidavits. The filters like accepted, rejected, withdrawn, and final contesting candidates will be available on application. The upgraded mobile application is available for android phones which would soon be available on iOS versions as well.